Countersuit Filed Against Former Partner
The New York Law Journal reports in a July 8, 2008 article that a prominent New York law firm has filed a countersuit against a former partner. The firm accuses the former partner, who had originally filed a defamation suit against the firm, of “extremely inappropriate personal conduct,” claiming he had in a “pattern of suggestive comments, sexual innuendo, sexual propositions, sexually-oriented teasing, gender-specific jokes and obscene gestures” according to the firm in its twenty page complaint.
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